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Continuity & Community to Support Your Practice
Join our monastic communities online and receive practical insight into some of the most pressing questions of our time.
Begin Your Path
Lost in the noise? Longing for clarity?
Do you ever feel like your practice ends when the meditation bell rings? That life pulls you away from what truly matters?
We all long for clarity, presence, and real connection — but the pace of daily life makes it hard to stay centered.
That’s why we created Connect & Meditate. A gentle rhythm of reflection, community, and guidance — to return, again and again, to what really matters.
From scattered → to centered. From alone → to connected. From inspired → to embodied.
What’s Included
Three pillars to support your transformation — from guided teaching to daily integration.
Receive fresh insight and practical guidance from those working at the forefront of transformation. Includes live events, curated study materials, and audience Q&A.
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Your support structure for steady, daily engagement.
  • Morning & evening meditation streams from our Online Zendo
  • Peer-led community forums for shared reflection and dialogue
  • The Baker Roshi Archive: thousands of teachings from one of the most experienced Zen teachers of our time (rolling release)
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One Question. Many Perspectives. Real Insight.
Each month, Nicole Baden Roshi sits down with visionary guests — scientists, activists, teachers, artists — to explore one essential question:
“What is your advice for the world today?”
No hype. No fluff. Just honest, reflective conversations that awaken something within. Small practices. Deep values. Personal truths.
This is not a podcast. It’s a living inquiry.
What You Will Learn
Join live sessions — or watch the recordings at your own pace — with leading voices in societal transformation. Each speaker offers powerful, actionable insights to help you meet complexity with clarity, care, and courage.
This year’s themes include:
  • Navigating High Conflict: Learn from renowned negotiator William Ury how to move beyond polarization and tap into what he calls “the Possible” — even in the most difficult conversations.
  • Seeing Into the Roots of Systemic Suffering: With Valerie Brown and others, explore the structures that sustain inequity and disconnection — and how contemplative awareness, healing practices, and inclusive leadership can open new paths forward.
  • Fostering Global and Embodied Community: Sozan Miglioli, founder of Zen Without Borders, shares how to build authentic connection across cultures and continents — and why inner presence is key to sustaining collective resilience.
  • Embedding Sustainability Into Complex Systems: Jason Kibbey, UC Berkeley climate solutions leader, brings deep expertise in systems thinking, entrepreneurial innovation, and environmental measurement — showing how values and strategy can align for large-scale impact.
  • Facing and Healing Collective Trauma: Throughout the series, we’ll also explore how trauma — both personal and societal — shapes our world, and how clarity, compassion, and spiritual practice can support real healing.
The Speaker
How it Works
Your membership gives you full access to the interview series What’s Your Advice? – Voices of Courage, Clarity, and Compassion.
How It Works – Membership Access
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Live Dialoge

Join live sessions with thought leaders and spiritual pioneers — real-time conversations that go deep.

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Full On-Demand Access

Watch or rewatch every episode of What’s Your Advice? at your own pace — whenever it fits your rhythm.

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Guided Email Journey

Receive weekly materials, reflections, and inspiration to support integration in your daily life.

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Your Online Campus

Practice daily zazen, connect in community forums, and explore the Baker Roshi Archive for deeper study.

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Student testimonials
What students have to say
Tatsudo Baden Roshi | Online courses
I am grateful to every opportunity to listen to my teacher, wherever she is. While she is traveling the world, it’s a gift if I can be part of her teaching, which is a constant process in my daily life.
Following online courses and having the material available later is a tremendous help to deepen and really study the teachings thoroughly. By repeatedly listening to them, I am on my way finding what’s said in my own body-mind-experience, planting the seeds of how to enact them in daily life, and establish and manifest supporting postures.
What I love about Tatsudo’s presentations of the Dharma is their application covers every level of possible understanding, feeling and embodying. She always offers multiple instructions of how to really take a teaching in, work with it, digest it, embody it. The world of Zen practice becomes sort of a house that we can build, enjoy, live in, share. While the architecture of practice and how to inhabit it is taught, probably the most important component for me seems to be her boundless capacity to be intimate by heart fully. Being able to feel-see-face-meet-penetrate every aspect of life through the true nature of the heart to me seems to be the most important healing quality I know. Thank you, Roshi!
I appreciate, through online gatherings, getting a wider feeling of our sangha of the world and being able to connect to wisdom in a brother community together.
Anna
A fresh, powerful voice in modern Zen
Tatsudo Nicole Baden Roshi is pure wonderfulness. Please pass that along. I've been doing this awhile and, gender (any differences) really, aren't a thing for me; they are for a lot of people though (mostly newbies).
Which is so refreshing—a fresh female voice/leader that will surely open the gates to more, and different, people exploring Zen ahead. I'm a big fan. And happy to support her success ahead. And, once I get through a transitional period, I plan to visit Crestone. Hopefully, I will get a chance to meet her then.
Keep up the outstanding work, including raising up an impressive young woman.
Kristen Heimerl
Even after years of practice – I’m still learning and deeply inspired.
I appreciate the clarity, thoroughness, and extensive knowledge of Tatsudo Baden Roshi. Today I listened to Day 3, and even though I’ve been practicing meditation for a long time, I’m still learning and feel inspired. I can only recommend everyone to take advantage of this generous opportunity. Many thanks to Tatsudo Baden Roshi and Zendharmasangha.
Renate Allcock
Exceptionally insightful – a modern bridge between Buddhism and psychology.
I find the course content truly exceptional. I'm fascinated by Nicole's reinterpretation, her connection between psychology and Buddhism, and how she situates it in the modern age.
Many things only became clear to me now, thanks to the many practical and relatable explanations offered.
In any case, it's a great and helpful course.
Hans-Werner
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Start your daily practice with clarity and ease.
Studying with Tatsudo Nicole Baden Roshi
”I have never taken as much for my own practice from any course as I did from this one. The daily impulses from Tatsudo Nicole Roshi were very valuable and inspiring for me. A well-rounded and successful concept that I would wholeheartedly recommend to any practitioner.”
Tatsudo Nicole Baden Roshi
Abbot of Dharma Sangha & Founder of the Dharma Academy
Tatsudo Nicole Baden Roshi (*1981) is the Dharma successor of Zentatsu Baker Roshi. She has been practicing with the Dharma Sangha since 2001. Until 2009, she studied psychology at the University of Oldenburg and simultaneously completed a training in the body-oriented method Body-Mind Centering©. She then lived for four years at the Crestone Mountain Zen Center in Colorado, USA, and has been at the Zen Buddhist Center Black Forest since 2013. In September 2024, Tatsudo Roshi officially assumed the Dharma succession and has since been guiding the spiritual direction of the Dharma Sangha as Abbot.
FAQs
Please feel free to email support@dharmaacademy.com for any lingering questions.
Valerian Hauffe
Dharma Academy Support
Is this suitable for beginners?
Absolutely! Our courses have material for all seekers, no matter where you are on the path.
Do I need to be Buddhist?
Our courses and teachings are rooted in ancient Zen practice, but it is our intention that they are applicable to everyone, whether or not you identify as a Buddhist. It’s about thoroughly embodying wisdom views and learning how to act compassionately – even when we don’t feel like it.
What if I miss a session?
The Wisdom Curriculum is designed to support all learners at their own speed—the context of our lives looks different for everyone. All courses and Dharma talks are recorded and accessible at any time, so you can do the course at the pace that is right for you.
Can I cancel anytime?
You are welcome to cancel at any time the Dharma Academy Membership is no longer right for you—and you are welcomed back if you change your mind!